![]() Outside of acting, she founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused. Her breakthrough came with playing Olivia Benson on the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present), for which she has received acclaim and several accolades she reprises the role in Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021–present). ![]() She had a main role in the crime drama series Downtown (1986), played the recurring role of Carly Fixx in Falcon Crest (1988), and continued to appear in numerous film and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hargitay made her debut with an appearance in the music video " She Loves My Car" (1984) by Ronnie Milsap, and subsequently starred in the horror comedy film Ghoulies (1985). ![]() The daughter of bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield, her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two People's Choice Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. Mariska Magdolna Hargitay ( / m ə ˈ r ɪ ʃ k ə ˈ h ɑːr ɡ ɪ t eɪ/ born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, director, producer and philanthropist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Keywords: gender, masculinity, climate change, militarism, identity I expect that masculinist identities, cultures and militarised institutions will tend to favour large-scale remedies, such as geoengineering, minimise mitigation strategies, such as reducing energy use, and emphasise ‘security’ problems of global climate change. Research on historical and contemporary links between masculinity and the military in environmental politics, polar research and large-scale strategies for managing risk, including from climate change, suggests that men and their perspectives have more influence over climate change policies because of their historical domination of science and government. This is because of their relative poverty, economic activities (especially subsistence agriculture) and the moral economies governing women's modesty in many cultures. Research on gendered vulnerabilities to disasters suggests that women are more vulnerable than men to many meteorological disasters related to climate change, specifically flooding and drought. This article explores the place of race, class, gender, sexual and national identities and cultures in global climate change. “Intersecting Identities and Global Climate Change.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 19 (4): 467–76. ![]() ![]() Present day: Ellie Carver is in a race against time to deliver a decades-overdue message as her grandmother fades into the shadows of Alzheimer’s. ![]() Bridging the past and present in three time periods-the French Revolution, World War II, and present day- The Lost Castle is an enchanting, interwoven story of three resilient women connected by a storybook castle that stands witness to their lives.ġ789: Aveline Saint-Moreau is a wealthy and beautiful young aristocrat preparing for her betrothal to the Duc et Vivay’s heir Philippe, but the French Revolution looms as the Bastille is stormed in Paris.ġ944: Viola Hart is a Resistance fighter in France during World War II, desperately trying to root out the evil taking hold in her country as the Nazis occupy France. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, this hilly south-east London community is at once suburban and creative, with a stronghold of independent shops, a large park and a family-friendly feel. When the Crystal Palace was painstakingly rebuilt on a site at the summit of Sydenham Hill, it gave its name to a nearby neighbourhood, which remained so after the structure burned down in 1936. Playwright Douglas Jerrold was so struck by the edifice that he described it in the satirical magazine Punch as “a palace of very crystal” – and it was a moniker that captured the imagination of Victorian London. ![]() ![]() Of all the curious names of the capital’s various corners – from Swiss Cottage to Elephant and Castle – perhaps none are as fascinating as Crystal Palace: a reference to the behemoth glass building that hosted the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in the middle of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kenner had licensed the DC Heroes, and Mattel had He-Man, but wanted to hedge in case superheroes became the next big fad. The following issue had a cover story on the series, which had been renamed Secret Wars. The series was announced as Cosmic Champions in the eleventh issue of the Marvel Age news magazine, cover dated February 1984. The series was conceived by Marvel Comics' editor-in-chief Jim Shooter. It was tied in with a toy line and a role-playing game of the same name from Mattel. The series was written by Jim Shooter, with art by Mike Zeck and Bob Layton. Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars, commonly known as Secret Wars, is a 12-issue American comic book crossover limited series published from May 1984 to April 1985 by Marvel Comics. Cover art by Mike Zeck depicting Captain America, Cyclops, Wolverine, Hawkeye, The Wasp, Rogue, She-Hulk, The Thing, Captain Marvel, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Hulk, Spider-Man, Storm, Human Torch and Iron Man Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #1 (May 1984). ![]() ![]() ![]() But just when she thinks she's out, they pull her back in. She's tired of creeps, weirdos, and stalkers. So what's a bounty hunter to do? Quit! Stephanie is ready to live a safe life. And now, with Ranger missing in action, Stephanie has to go into hiding, only to stumble on to the secret location of Ranger's "bat cave." Is it the perfect place to disappear? Or will she get into more trouble than she knows by delving into his private world? Eleven on Top Trouble seems to find Stephanie no matter where she goes and now, yet again, she's struggling with her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her God-given gift for destroying every car she drives. ![]() Ten Big Ones Stephanie, facing a notorious gang in Trenton who want her dead, believes Morelli when he warns her that she's in too deep. How much trouble can Stephanie Plum get herself into? Only she can count the ways.in this special two-novels-in-one volume edition from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich that will keep readers laughing until the last page. ![]() All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers. And now, with Ranger missing in action, Stephanie has to go into hiding, only to stumble on to the secret location of Ranger's 'bat cave.' Is it the perfect place to disappear? Or will she get into more trouble than she knows by delving into his private world?"- May have some shelf wear from being out in store. About the Book Ten big ones: "Stephanie, facing a notorious gang in Trenton who want her dead, believes Morelli when he warns her that she's in too deep. ![]() ![]() ![]() This harrowing, heartbreaking story of one of history’s hidden heroes is meticulously researched by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron. With two Nazis below, thirteen hidden Jewish people above, and a little sister by her side, Stefania will risk everything to keep herself, and those she loves, safe. Then Nazi officers requisition their house for the German army. Stefania and Helena make the extraordinary decision to hide Max, and eventually twelve more Jewish people. One day, Max Diamant knocks on her door-he’s jumped from a train headed to a death camp. The Diamants are forced into the ghetto, and Stefania is alone in an occupied city, the only one left to care for Helena, her six-year-old sister. But everything changes when the German army invades Przemsyl. ![]() ![]() It is 1943, and for four years, sixteen-year-old Stefania has been working for the Diamants, a Jewish family in Przemsyl, Poland. ![]() The Light in Hidden Places is based on the extraordinary true story of Stefania Podgo?rska, a teenage girl who made the brave choice to hide 13 Jewish people in her attic while taking care of her six-year-old sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() Curiosity must be stimulated if scholarship is desired, and sympathy is essential to this stimulation." High scholarship is not produced by students who have their curiosity stifled by their teachers. we have our doubts about exclusion being the solution to the problem. In modern pedagogy, punishments like dunce caps have fallen out of favor: by 1927 an editorial in the Educational Research Bulletin stated: "The rod and the cap were not eminently successful. ![]() Some American schools still permitted caps as late as the 1950s, however, and it was more recently banned in several areas in England and Wales in 2010. It became unpopular in the early 20th century. In the 19th century, it was seen by some as degrading: in 1831, children's book author Sidney Babcock wrote of the dunce cap as debasing and harsh, and in 1899, historian Alice Morse Earle compared it to other forms of school discipline she saw as degrading and outdated. 1828 engraving showing a boy standing on a stool wearing a dunce cap with the ears of an ass.Ī dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat, formerly used as an article of discipline in schools in Europe and the United States-especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries-for children who were disruptive or were considered slow in learning. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are no traces of the supernatural here, unless you count the preternaturally intelligent German shepherd that saves the day on more than one occasion. The Chemist is not Meyer’s first adult novel – that was The Host, a story of alien invasion. ![]() But as Alex delves deeper into the case – it involves biological warfare, and she’s able to rig up a few scenarios where her own particularly dark talents are made use of – she finds that nothing is as it seems, and that the corruption goes right to the highest levels. At least, she hopes, she’ll be able to find out what they have on her. She doesn’t know why they want her dead, but she’s getting tired of running, and when she reads an email asking her to take on one last job for the agency, because “many, many lives” are on the line, she hopes her days as a fugitive might be at an end. In a charming touch, we meet her in a library, where she’s reading spy novels for ideas to keep her safe from her former employers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her peace is disrupted when Zane, the leader of the Crims, asks her about David, whom she loved while she lived in the Smoke. ![]() Tally returns to her carefree life as a Pretty. They bounce, though Tally is hit in the head hard enough to make her bleed, and is voted into the Crims because of her "bubbly" stunt. Real Specials arrive, so he leaves and Tally tries to follow him by jumping off a balcony with Peris, who is wearing a bungee jacket. He tells her that he left a note for Tally in Valentino Mansion. She soon finds him and discovers that it is Croy, a Smokey she knew before she turned pretty. ![]() While attending the bash, at which she is to be voted into the "Crims" clique, she is followed by someone who appears to be a "Special", a member of Special Circumstances. The book begins with Tally, the main protagonist, as a Pretty debating what to wear to a bash. It tells the story of teenager Tally Youngblood who rebels against society's enforced conformity in hopes of exposing the societies dangerous obsessions with perfection and uniformity. The premise of the novel relies on a future set in a future dystopian world in which everyone is turned "Pretty" by extreme cosmetic surgery upon reaching age 16. Pretties is a 2005 science fiction novel and the second book of the Uglies Trilogy written by Scott Westerfeld. ![]() |